ARSENAL's players want to win the FA Cup for Arsene Wenger after an extra-time winner from Alexis Sanchez put them into the final.

Manchester City took the lead through Sergio Aguero but an equaliser from Nacho Monreal set up the Chile international to score a record fourth Arsenal goal at Wembley to earn a meeting with Chelsea on May 27.

Gunners midfielder Aaron Ramsey said: “We have let the boss down at times this season, so we want to win it for him and ourselves.

“I love this competition. We have been quite successful in recent years and you can see the passion that the players play with. We went behind and kept on going and got a result. “It was important to win today, to have something to look forward to. But now we have another seven cup finals to try and get into the top four.”

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Arsenal are through to a record 20th FA Cup final

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Alexis Sanchez scored the winner in extra time

Wenger played down the significance of the result to his own future and instead paid tribute to the matchwinner, insisting Sanchez is going nowhere in the summer.

“Alexis Sanchez was like the team,” he said. “He is an animal, always ready to kill the opponent. He will never give up. He will be here next year because he has a contract and hopefully we will manage to extend him.

“At Arsenal football club we want the team to turn up in big games and I think we have done that today. Overall I am very pleased. People questioned us, we went through tough times. In these times you can be divided or united and today we have shown the right response.

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“People can question my decisions but not my loyalty and commitment to the club. We went through a difficult period. I will talk one day about that. I feel players showed great togetherness today.”

Defeat leaves Pep Guardiola without any silverware to his name at the end of a season for the first time in an illustrious managerial career with Barcelona, Bayern Munich and City.

Already, though, he is preparing though for next season’s campaign.

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Arsenal have won two of the last three FA Cups

“We performed like we would want to in a final - we did absolutely everything,” Guardiola said. “Congratulations to Arsenal.

“We competed here, we had more chances but the finishing was like it has been throughout the season. “We played like we wanted to and that’s all. We are sad but tomorrow we have to stand up to finish the games we still have to play.

“I don’t have regrets about the team. We just have to compete in these games. We are here for the results. Next season we will be stronger.”